ChessCraft

Frame of Mind

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About this game

Never play the same game of chess again! ChessCraft is a chess sandbox with an AI computer opponent. Customize chess boards, rules, and pieces. Share your creations online. Play your friends online, or play the computer, or choose from one of 75 built-in chess boards in adventure mode. ChessCraft is also the world's largest chess variant database.

https://www.chesscraft.ca

Many chess AI mobile games already exist, but only ChessCraft allows the player to create such wacky boards and pieces and immediately play a decent computer opponent.

Create new pieces with any combination of the 8 bishop or rook slides, plus a 7x7 grid of knight-like hops. Pieces can also enhance or restrict nearby pieces. Create new boards with any enabled or disabled tile up to 16x16. Place promotion rules for any piece, anywhere. Place tile rules like witch windows (teleporters), sanctuaries, and more. The computer AI opponent then uses concepts from computer science and graph theory to understand your creations and play against you.

When you share a board, your friends can play the AI too. Sharing creates a new web page just for you, like this:

https://www.chesscraft.ca/design?id=shape-variant1

ChessCraft is full and free with no ads, except for the occasional popup which asks you to buy ChessCraft Patron. If you become a patron, you won't see those interruptions anymore. If you're a teacher, student, or you cannot afford ChessCraft Patron, send me an email and I'll send you a special code.

Visit the website and send me an email if you have any feedback or questions. If you like the game, please rate it!

Ratings and reviews

I put this as 5 stars a while back, but I forgot to add this bit. Is a good game, love the idea and games, it's super fun. One problem I have is that when you upload a board to the community, you lose it in your play menu, and you have to go back into the site and import it again. If it made a copy of the board automatically, that would be amazing. Another thing would be if you added a search bar to the boards menu so you don't have to scroll through everything to find a board.

I had Chesscraft a long time ago and I felt like the only problem was that I could add any pictures. But with the new update with pictures and folders, I feel like it's perfect! I personally never liked Adventure Mode, but it's great for building new strategies and challenging yourself to new game modes. I would definitely recommend this app if your trying to build a new and original boardgame or to strategize with boards that could be difficult in a chess game. Also, the bots are great practice

I love the unique idea of this game. It gives you a lot of creativity to work with and some custom designs pre-made for pieces. However, uploading images to the garb pieces is not working, and that was very disappointing, considering this game is great. Please fix this and I would happily give it 5 stars.

What's new

Bug fixes.
User interface improvements.
Fixed ghost appearance.
Added graphics for special days.